Saturday Feb 9 |
 | nautilus 45:00 [1] | |
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Friday Feb 8 |
| road running 45:54 [3]5.53 mi (8:17 / mi) | |
| shoes: Montrail #2 |
| Lover's Lane loop from the Body Shoppe. Amused myself all the way up the hill thinking about weird clients. Ran harder at the time, though you wouldn't guess it by the time. |
Thursday Feb 7 |
| nautilus 35:00 [1] | |
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| treadmill 20:00 [2]2.41 mi (8:17 / mi) | |
| shoes: Montrail #2 |
| Not much time. Too many strange clients. |
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| C • Well? 12 |
Wednesday Feb 6 |
| road running 26:40 [3]3.1 mi (8:36 / mi) | |
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| A short trip around the local roads, feeling slow as usual, but knee not too bad. Given the slow pace, it seems more appropriate to use a different standard of measurement than the usual minutes per mile.
So on this run I focused on a good minutes per square kilometer pace and the result (26:40 for 1.047 sq. km. = 25:25 pace), which strikes me as quite decent and certainly a whole lot better than what I did two days ago. Excellent!
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| C • area? 34 |
Tuesday Feb 5 |
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| Went to vote a little before 8 am, raining but lots of people, had to wait in line for 5 minutes, I was already voter #95 in our little town, maybe 2K registered voters. Being "unenrolled" I could take either a Republican or Democratic ballot. Funny that the R ballots were blue and the D ballots were red, a reversal of current practice. Felt good to take a red one and fill in the oval next to Obama. |
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| C • Obama 5 |
| nautilus 50:00 [1] | |
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| Knee sore from yesterday, probably overdid it, especially with the rough footing. |
Monday Feb 4 |
| trail running 55:02 [3] | |
| shoes: Asics trail |
| On Greenfield ridge, white trail for the first part, then along the top to Sachem Head, back the same way. Mix of snow and ice, not sinking in far but traction only so-so, had to be careful on the sidehills and downhills.
Once again, working hard for a slow pace, but this was a longer effort than anything recently. Knee was just a little sore the whole time.
And in other news -- (1) made an appointment with a urologist for a couple weeks from now, that's good, and (2) I noticed that my t-shirt yesterday seemed a bit snug around the chest. Yikes, am I bulking up? If so will it help either my orienteering or my golf game? As to the former, my skills there have gone to hell so it doesn't matter. As to the latter, one can always hope. And as to one other pastime that I don't normally partake of, if I go to the beach, will I no longer get sand kicked in my face (not that I ever really did, I don't think....)? |
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| Election time is here. Maybe a month ago Gail and I were discussing who we might vote for and I said I hadn't decided between Hillary and Obama. At some point a couple weeks ago, as a result of the campaigning, it became very clear that I would vote for Obama.
So for any Obama supporters, be sure you vote tomorrow. Hillary supporters, make sure you go vote on Wednesday. |
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| C • Obama 8 |
Sunday Feb 3 |
| nautilus 1:00:00 [1] | |
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| For some reason I thought I should see if I could bench press 100 pounds (instead of the 70 I am doing now), so I put the pin in for 100 and lifted and it wasn't so hard and I did it nine times before that was enough. And then I thought, I wonder if I can do 1 G, just once, so I put the pin at 140 and took a few deep breaths, and slowly but surely up it went. Back down. Thought I'd see if I could do it again. A few more deep breaths, but only halfway up this time. Still pretty good. Didn't feel like I was straining anything, I hope. |
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| C • For some reason ... 7 |
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| C • bench 3 |